But the operating system has been skinned to offer Commodore 64-like graphics. There’s also built-in support for Commodore 64 software emulation, letting you run 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit apps designed to run on actual Commodore computers.

Like most modern Linux distributions, Commodore OS Vision comes with internet, office, and media player apps preloaded, but it also features media production software including the GIMP image editor, Openshot video editor, and Linux MultiMedia Studio music production software. There are also a number of video games available.

The C64 Didn’t _have_ an OS. Just a BASIC interpreter, while on blue with a blue border text screen. So basically, they’re bundling VICE with Mint, and giving Gnome a blue colour scheme?

“But the operating system has been skinned to offer Commodore 64-like graphics.” – that has to be the Worst. Idea. Ever.

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What do you mean? “Next to today’s computers it looks like a piece of junk”. A Commodore 64 is not a piece of junk. It was the world’s best selling computer and is still used today by thousands of computer users.